eMachine won't post...

[Elvis2]

but it's for a friend that's a single mom and doesn't have much $. it's a T3958: 2.93 478 celery, 845 chipset, 512mgs ram on board vid/aud. she got a keyboard error and it didn't work. i powered down, swapped keyboards and hit the power button and...nada, nothing zip, zingo. i tried unplugging peripherals hoping for a post but nothing. power light on the mb was green. i've swapped out mb's, ram, p/s same thing, cmos battery. nothing powers up.
any intelligent suggestions would be welcome.
tia

 

[robisbell]

motherboards failed or is failing probably, slight chance the PSU died tho.

 

[redbeard1]

Originally posted by: robisbell
motherboards failed or is failing probably, slight chance the PSU died tho.

Mobo

I just worked on one of these. They have a weak power supply that blows up, taking the motherboard with it. The one i worked on, there was a blown capacitor bouncing around in the power supply.

The 845 chipset in that thing is a second revision which supports Pentium D cpu's. Not a common thing to come to find. It was mostly sold as low cost OEM boards.

 

[robisbell]

I've had some emachines have bad boards but rock solid PSU's.